Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Went to see them the other week |
| 2 | He came to see me the other evening . |
| 3 | I had someone come to see me the other week from the R S P C A because they said this cat was held forty foot in the air |
| 4 | they 'd take a piece with them and that was all they had to sustain them the whole day . |
| 5 | Pye eventually agreed to lease me a small factory in Watford , in which I set up my new company . |
| 6 | We start in ten days and I firmly rely on the goodness of Providence to grant me a safe and prosperous passage . |
| 7 | The prints spilled on to the carpet and as Sabine bent to retrieve them the young boy 's face seemed to glare directly up at her , challenging and inimical . |
| 8 | I got her through my old friend , Blandly , who , with everyone in Bristol , worked hard to find me a suitable ship when they heard the reason for our voyage — treasure , I mean . |
| 9 | ‘ Her business to find me a pretty and agreeable companion , that 's what she said . ’ |
| 10 | We also decided that Mike would have to take every third day off to recover , while Christophe continued to follow the chimps , so that he and Mike would know where to find them the following day . |
| 11 | Again , the Germans did better , 22% being prepared to trust them a great deal . |
| 12 | For Andy Norman , the king-pin of British athletics , to take time out to write me a personal letter was amazing . |
| 13 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 14 | So if you 're wandering around and you want to write somebody a quick note , you do n't have to open the rings and take out a piece of paper , you just write on here and tear it off . |
| 15 | Even though the chances of owning a boarding house were less then the people we listened to first believed , they had a distinctive orientation to work which no other group expressed . |
| 16 | Inspector Redpath and the ordinary police made hundreds of inquiries on land , but could learn nothing to indicate who the dead man was , or how or where he met his death . |
| 17 | Do n't do anything yet , I shall get John to write you a long technical letter . |
| 18 | If , for example , a Russian artist is giving you one of his canvases , you would be wise to ask him to write you a certifying document first . |
| 19 | Dearest all four of you , at last I have time to write you a proper letter , which I hope will reach you , via the ‘ diplomatic bag ’ before mummy 's birthday . |
| 20 | When Jerry and I were young if at the end of the month there was no money in the account the bank used to write you a filthy letter if you were two pounds overdrawn . |
| 21 | Gartmore investors will have to wait until the end of January to know who the new owners will be although it will almost certainly be an overseas based group . |
| 22 | In both situations , time taken trying to establish who the key influencers and decision-makers are will be well rewarded . |
| 23 | IBM Corp has had to call in the headhunters again to find itself a new chief financial officer : it has tapped Russell Reynolds Associates , and the executive search firm says that it was actually hired by IBM prior to appointment of Louis Gerstner as chairman and chief executive . |
| 24 | It would please me , Joan , when the time comes and my daughter 's marriage to Prince Richard is completed , to find you a suitable husband . |
| 25 | I fully accept that if I want to know everything a top luthier knows then I should go away and make a serious study of the subject , but I would be quite happy to read a dedicated magazine each month from which I can learn about what 's new , who 's up to what , what new guitars are like to play etc. etc. and also the meaning of the industry 's technical terminology . |
| 26 | A peek through the window showed that the taxi had arrived , brief farewells were made to the men , and Karl left , promising to ring them the next day and making mock threats to Erika and Paul should they forget to meet him the following Sunday . |
| 27 | It took the bank almost two months to write him a curt letter saying it was not interested . |
| 28 | Conscious that he needed an heir , James now acquired a wife , having instructed the envoy sent to find him a suitable bride that she should not be ‘ too horrible ’ . |
| 29 | But Wilson had been immeasurably kind to him , found a place for a very square peg in his government and , in 1967 , when he no longer had room in his government for Wigg , created him a peer and was at pains to find him a suitable job as chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board . |
| 30 | ‘ It would have been terribly unfair to him and any possible new owners to find him a new home when he was in such a terrible state . |